About Roy Mayer
Lived 1940 – 2023 (aged 83). Roy Mayer was a Canadian writer and inventor.
Roy Albert Philip Mayer (2 June 19408 July 2023) better known as Roy Mayer was a Canadian writer and inventor whose bestselling books celebrated innovation in Canada. These included Scientific Canadian , Invention: Quest of the Bright Idea, Inventing Canada, and Eureka: Game-in-a-book.
Mayer served as Chair of the National Flag Day Campaign, as well as in other roles related to the promotion of Canadian achievement.
In 1993, Mayer won Success magazine's $1 million Breakthrough Ideas contest for the invention of a sport fishing product.
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Who was Roy Mayer?
Canadian writer and inventor
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Roy Mayer was born on 2 June 1940.
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Roy Mayer died on 8 July 2023.
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Roy Mayer was a writer and inventor.
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Roy Mayer was Canadian.
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